CRIME IN INDIA REPORT 2017

Key highlights of the report: 

• A total of 50,07,044 cognizable crimes — 30,62,579 Indian Penal Code (IPC) crimes and 19,44,465 Special & Local Laws (SLL) crimes — were registered in 2017, an increase of 3.6 per cent in registration of cases over 2016.
  
  
• The NCRB for the first time collected data on circulation of “false/fake news and rumours.” Under the category, maximum incidents were reported from Madhya Pradesh (138), Uttar Pradesh (32) and Kerala (18).
  
  
• A new category of offences committed by various categories of “Anti-National Elements” showed that the maximum offences were committed by Left Wing Extremist (LWE) operatives (652), followed by North East insurgents (421) and Terrorists (Jihadi and other elements) (371).
  
  
• 3,59,849 cases of crime against women were reported in the country. Uttar Pradesh topped the list with 56,011. Majority of cases under crimes against women were registered under ‘Cruelty by Husband or his Relatives’ (27.9%).
  
  
• In percentage terms, major crime heads under ‘Crime Against Children’ during 2017 were kidnapping and abduction (42.0 per cent) and cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (25.3 per cent) including child rape.
  
  
• 58,880 incidents of rioting were reported, of which the maximum incidents were reported from Bihar (11,698). Of the total riots reported, communal and sectarian riots accounted for 723 and 183 incidents respectively. There were 805 riots due to caste conflict and 1909 riots occurred due to political reasons.
  
  
• Incidents of atrocities against Scheduled Castes jump from 5,082 in 2016 to 5,775 in 2017.
  
  
• Incidents of crime related to Scheduled Tribes dipped from 844 in 2016 to 720 in 2017.
  
  
• Delhi recorded a 40.4% share of total Indian Penal Code (IPC) crimes registered across 19 metropolitan cities in the county in 2017 with Bengaluru taking the second position at 8.9% followed by Mumbai at 7.4%.
  
  
• There has been a 30 per cent rise in incidents of offences against the state in 2017 as compared to 2016. This category includes offences such as sedition, waging war against the country and damage to public property among others.
  
  
• The maximum number of sedition cases were reported from Assam (19) followed by Haryana (13). Jammu and Kashmir recorded just one case of sedition.
  
  
• Data collected under the new sub-heads of death due to mob lynching, murder by influential people, killing ordered by khap panchayat and murder committed for religious reason have not been published, resulting in partial delay of the agency’s report for 2017.
  
  
• A total 21,796 instances of cyber-crime were recorded in 2017, an increase of 77% over the previous year’s number of 12,317. nearly every fifth cyber-crime in 2017 was committed against a woman.